When
I was in elementary school, an investigator in the local D.A.’s office
gave my father, then a rising local prosecutor, a precious gift. For my sister
and me, this gift passed beyond mere rite of passage into the realm of legend.
It was a four volume compilation of hits of the Fifties and Sixties transferred
with great care and the finest technology onto four 120-minute TDK high-quality
cassette tapes...

Discussing wine with people, you run
into many that will tell you, with some embarrassment, that they usually pick
the wine by the label. Most people think this is the wrong way to choose a
wine. Well it's not... Always. There are, of course, certain unwritten rules
about buying a wine by the label...